[coldtea]

>I think the increasingly widespread attitude that only open source software is good and trustworthy increasingly annoying and problematic.

If people put their notes in, only open source software is good.

At best, one can tolerate a very big closed source company, who is unlikely to just do whatever with the data and has some track record for privacy, like Apple.

But trusting all your notes to a closed source app from a small peanuts company?

[theshrike79]

In this case the "closed source app" is using a very open and easy to parse format.

If Obsidian enshittified tonight so badly I had to stop using it, the only thing I'd kind of miss is dataview and bases.

And of those dataview is "just" parsing a bunch of markdown with javascript. Bases is a yaml format for displaying more markdown.

I'm pretty sure I could vibe-code some scripts over a weekend that cover most of my Obsidian use-cases and use any markdown-capable editor for writing.

That's why I use Obsidian (and stopped using Joplin, because - at the time - all my notes were in one obscure blob)

[cpach]

Same here. I have not found any open source option that does all of these: Nice user interface / App for both Mac and iOS / Automatic syncing.

[ezst]

> has some track record for privacy, like Apple.

Should we tell them?